Three passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight including a child were critically injured when the plane crash-landed and flipped upside-down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.
Delta Flight 4819, which departed from Minneapolis at approximately 11:47 a.m., was seen flipped over on a snowy runway, according to photos and videos shared online.
The belly-up jet looked badly damaged in photos and video circulating on social media, with one wing severely crumpled and the tail section partially sheared off.
According to CP24 News, at least eight individuals have been reported injured so far.
Paramedics informed the BBC that they transported three severely injured passengers to different hospitals, including a “pediatric patient” and a man in his 60s.
The age of the injured child was not immediately known, nor was the age of the other adult passenger taken to the hospital.
The aircraft is a Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR, according to flight records.
Dramatic video posted on Facebook by a passenger shows firefighters, paramedics and other emergency personnel frantically making their way across the snow-swept runway to the upside-down plane.
The crash occurred after a weekend winter storm in the area that deposited nearly nine inches of snow on the airport, prompting crews to work overnight on Sunday to clear essential runways.
This is the first major incident involving a commercial passenger jet since the January 29 crash of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines flight 5342 at Ronald Reagan National Airport, which resulted in 67 fatalities among passengers and crew.